How to Surround Yourself with the Right People

If you want to learn to fly, you could take aeronautical advice from a child with a paper plane, “Go to a really high place on a windy day…” Catastrophes can begin by looking for the right answers from the wrong people. The same principle applies to those affecting our ability to achieve goals. The […]

How to Discover Your Authentic Self

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity. – Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D, Author  Imagine if you could look in a mirror and see who you really are, your authentic self. A […]

Five Steps to Maintain a Passion for Life

Don’t Live to Work, Work to Live! Children have intense passion for so many things because – they can! They live to fight off boredom. Children would rather play passionately than eat! Adults need to, and often enjoy eating. In order to eat, we must earn. To earn, we must work. Responsibility replaced the time […]

Five Steps to Let Go of Bitterness

Have a Bitterness Bonfire! Bitterness is sneaky. It hunkers down in the corners of our mind, blends in, littering and limiting our life’s landscape. Hanging onto bitterness is like hanging a worm eaten apple on the wall to remind us that  things can go bad. Bitterness doesn’t just cause us to avoid bad apples, but […]

Five Steps to Forgiveness

Don’t Judge! (Don’t Be a Hater!) Social networking websites have done a wonderfully horrible thing by eliminating the distance between enemies. A friend request from someone who you feel offended you, might evoke, “Are they crazy?! They’re not getting away with what they did to me! I’ll decline, or better yet, ignore them so they’ll […]

How to Effectively Manage Everyday Stress Levels

Have you ever felt so stressed out you thought you’d explode at any minute? Well you’re not alone because today’s lifestyle and work culture are creating higher and higher levels of stress for many. Unfortunately, there is a big price to be paid for maintaining high levels of stress, which include health complications and emotion […]

How to Reinvigorate your Life with Zeal

Have you noticed your level of energy, excitement or enthusiasm for your life has been steadily declining? It may be an indication you are in a rut. Now this is not a negative trait necessarily, because routine is a sign of efficiency. However, as our lives become routine the amount of energy needed to get […]